Railway-rail bond.



A. GETHING.

RAILWAY RAIL BOND.

APPLICATION FILED JAN 9, 1907 Patented Dec. 1, 1908.

2 SHEETS-SHEET l A. GETHING.

RAILWAY RAIL BOND.

APPLICATION TILED JAN. 9, 1907.

905,810. Patented Dec. 1,1908.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

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AMOS GETHING, OF ENTERPRISE, WEST VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO JOHN P.

WILLIS AND ONE-THIRD TO HOMER ICE, BOTH OF ENTERPRISE, WEST VIRGINIA.

' RAILWAY-BAIL noun.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 1, 1908.

Application filed. January 9, 1907. Serial No. 351,513.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AMos GETHING a citizen of the United States, residing at Enterprise, in the county of Harrison, State of West Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Rail Bonds; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has relation to devices for bonding or uniting the joints of railwayrails of a track for the purpose of utilizing the rails as a line of an electric circuit to conduct a power-current to operate signaling devices or any other means or things to which a power-currentmay be applicable in railway operations.

It is the object of the invention to provide a rail-bond that shall be first of all entirely efficient for the purposes for which it is intended, and that shall be simple in construction, and economic inmanufacture, besides being ready and easy of application.

The nature of the invention is ascertainablefrom the device'portrayed in the annexed drawings, forming a part of this specification, in view of which the invention will first be described with respect to its construction' and mode of use, and then be pointed out in the subjoined claim.

Of the said drawingsFigure' 1 is a plan.

sectional view of Fig. 3.

.. tightly into holes ma Similar numerals or; reference designate slmllar parts or features, as the case may be, wherever they occur.

In the drawings 10 designates the intermediate portion of the bond which is preferably flattened and is fitted a ainst the sides of the intermediate of the web 11 of the rail an same and the fish-plate 12 that mechanically joins the ends of the rails.

13de'signates the end portions of the bond which are made round, the terminals 14 being bent, at right angles to-the plane of the body portion to ada t them to be driven d e in the web for their, reception so that a perfect electrical contact shall be made between the rails and the bond. v

The end portions of the flattened part ad'- jaoent to the rounded end portions 13 are bowed outward, as at 15, for the purpose of taking up all vibrations and expansions and contractions incident to their employment. The flattened parts between the rounded end portions and the bowed portions 15 are arranged to lie in the same plane as the intermediate flattened portion 10. The bowed I portions thus lie between two flattened portions'in the same plane. The purpose of this is to bring a direct tensile and shearingstress on the terminals 14:, these terminals thereby being prevented from subjection to bending stresses.

In use the improved bond will have its intermediate flattened portion placed against the sides of the webs ll of the end portions of two joining or abutting rails, and the fish-plates 12 will be bolted to the rails as usual on the outside of the bond, which may which connect the fish-plates to the rails.

It is designed to' make the bond of suflicient length that the ends of the fish-plate may not extend to the outward bow 15, so as not to-interfere with the action of the said how or bend in taking up vibrations and accommodating itself to atmospheric inflube placed either above or below the bolts 16 The bond may be made of copper or any other good electrical conductor-that is not easily liable to corrode, and that may possess other necessary properties.

What is claimed is A rail bond comprising a flat metallic bar I adapted to b'e'secured between the fish-plate and the rails to which the plate is connected, said bar comprising an intermediate portion, end portions lying in the same plane as the intermediate portion and bowed portions lying between the end portions and the intermediate'portion, and rounded extremlties beyond said end portions bent at rightv angles in a direction opposite to the projection of the bowed portions. In testimony whereof, I afiiir my signature, in presence of two witnesses. AMOS GETHING.

Witnesses: i

JOSEPH L. Hnimmrnf IRA G. DE'VAULT. 

